Re: Assertion failure in smgr.c when using pg_prewarm with partitioned tables
Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
From: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Cc: Masahiro Ikeda <ikedamsh@oss.nttdata.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-05-15T09:50:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:
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> On 2025/05/15 18:20, Dilip Kumar wrote:
> > On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM Masahiro Ikeda <ikedamsh@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I encountered an assertion failure when a partitioned table is specified
> >> as an argument to pg_prewarm. Below are the steps to reproduce the
> >> issue:
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> Thanks for the report!
>
> This assertion failure can also occur when pg_prewarm() is run on objects like
> foreign tables, plain views, or other relations that don't have storage - not just
> partitioned tables.
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> >> $ pgbench -i -s 1 --partitions=3
> >> $ psql <<EOF
> >> CREATE EXTENSION pg_prewarm;
> >> SELECT pg_prewarm('pgbench_accounts');
> >> EOF
> >>
> >> The following assertion failure occurs:
> >>
> >> TRAP: failed Assert("RelFileNumberIsValid(rlocator.relNumber)"), File:
> >> "smgr.c", Line: 246, PID: 1246282
> >> postgres: ikeda postgres [local]
> >> SELECT(ExceptionalCondition+0xbb)[0x55edd16725c1]
> >> postgres: ikeda postgres [local] SELECT(smgropen+0x5e)[0x55edd145c1ff]
> >>
> >>
> >> It looks like this may have been overlooked in commit 049ef33.
> >> What do you think?
> >
> > Yeah, this should be fixed, don't you think that instead of checking
> > the relnumber is valid,
>
> +1
>
> How about adding a check to see whether the target relation has storage,
> using something like RELKIND_HAS_STORAGE()?
Yeah, that makes more sense.
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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
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amcheck: Improve error message for partitioned index target.
- 88a658a42e1b 19 (unreleased) landed
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Fix assertion failure in pg_prewarm() on objects without storage.
- b64c585fde77 17.6 landed
- 3c4d7557e03b 18.0 landed
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Prevent assertion failure in contrib/pg_freespacemap.
- 4623d71443de 18.0 cited
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Don't try to open visibilitymap when analyzing a foreign table
- 049ef3398d05 17.0 cited